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The aim and object of this little volume is to lay 

 before my sporting friends and the public in general, 

 to whom I have so often discoursed — and with so 

 kindly hearers — concerning the Field Sports of 

 America, a slight sketch of English Fox-hunting — 

 the sport of sports, par excellence, and that sport 

 carried to its acme as it is no where but with the 

 Quorndon hounds and at Melton Mowbray. 



The use of real names and characters will be 

 excused, because nothing other than to the credit of 

 those specially named is herein contained — the identity 

 of those unpleasantly depicted is veiled under mis- 

 nomers. 



For the rest the merit of the sketch, if it have any, 

 lies in its perfect truthfulness. Men, horses, dogs, 

 and scenery are as they were at Melton when I was 

 there last, three and twenty years ago. 



HENRY WM. HERBERT. 



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